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Installing Firefox via APT instead of snap on Ubuntu 22.04

WARNING! You may want to do a backup of your firefox profile (see below)

remove firefox snap

snap remove firefox

Install firefox via APT

1. Add the "Mozilla Team" PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/ppa
sudo apt update

3. Prevent ubuntu from installing firefox via snap when you try to install it via APT by pinning the snap version. Read more about pinning here.

nano /etc/apt/preferences.d/firefox

Fill it with the following content

Package: firefox
Pin: version 1:1snap1-0ubuntu2
Pin-Priority: -1

this will de-prioritize the snap version.

check which if your hack worked:

sudo apt-cache policy firefox

it should show something like this:

firefox:
  Installed: 115.0+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~mt1
  Candidate: 115.0+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~mt1
  Version table:
     1:1snap1-0ubuntu2 -1
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
     115.0+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~mt1 500
        500 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/mozillateam/ppa/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

4. Install firefox via APT

sudo apt install firefox

5. Profit!!!

Profile Backup

Snap Firefox profiles are saved in ~/snap/firefox/common/.mozilla/ I've copied this over to ~/.mozilla/. Sadly firefox wasn't picking up my old profile on first start, I needed to modify the Default in ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini.